The recollection of them, he said, would go with him wherever he went and would be always treasured.

And so we gave him our hands, one after another--at least, they did--and I did; and so he put his lips to Ada's hand--and to mine; and so he went away upon his long, long voyage! I was very busy indeed all day and wrote directions home to the servants, and wrote notes for my guardian, and dusted his books and papers, and jingled my housekeeping keys a good deal, one way and another.

I was still busy between the lights, singing and working by the window, when who should come in but Caddy, whom I had no expectation of seeing! "Why, Caddy, my dear," said I, "what beautiful flowers!" She had such an exquisite little nosegay in her hand.
"Indeed, I think so, Esther," replied Caddy.

"They are the loveliest I ever saw." "Prince, my dear ?" said I in a whisper.
"No," answered Caddy, shaking her head and holding them to me to smell.

"Not Prince." "Well, to be sure, Caddy!" said I."You must have two lovers!" "What?
Do they look like that sort of thing ?" said Caddy.
"Do they look like that sort of thing ?" I repeated, pinching her cheek.
Caddy only laughed in return, and telling me that she had come for half an hour, at the expiration of which time Prince would be waiting for her at the corner, sat chatting with me and Ada in the window, every now and then handing me the flowers again or trying how they looked against my hair.